New Challenge for the month!

Wow it's been a while.. I was a bit lazy on the summer ( I played 2700 games in August, with 1.7k profit), but I want to work hard in September. So I'm doing a both profit and volume challenge. My br is tiny again, I'm on the edge of the $30 limit (I have to win 20 buyin @ $15). So the challenge is :


3600 hyper-turbo HU in the next 30 days

2500$ profit with bonuses

I think the volume part can be tough (I never played more than 3k game in one month imo), and the profit part can easily be ruined in just a few days. So it will be hard! If I can do the challenge. I'll finish decorating my apartment, and buy a completely useless expensive stuff for myself! I'll update my blog weekly, if I won't forget. 

Challenge done!

It was close, but I've made it!

Day 6

                                                                Day 7

The last graph shows the amount of $ I won, because I could move up to the $15s. Hurray! So the final graph about the week :

54 buyins! I'm very proud, especially for the last day. I was grinding 'till 5 AM, but it felt great to get up from my laptop finally, with very good results. This week will be a lighter week, but I'm planning something for the next one! 

Day 4 and 5

Day 4

                                                                     Day 5

I have to play 180 game today and tomorrow to complete the challenge, I think it will work. Results are very good, I'm almost back to the $15s. I'm trying to withdraw less money in August, in order to climb back to the higher stakes. Well, I don't have to hurry that much, FTP is on the way :P

So far so good..

I played 86 games on Monday, 140 on Tuesday, and 150 yesterday, so I'm 53 games behind my goal ( i have to play 143 HU a day). The results could be better ofc :

1st day

2nd day

     3rd day

Oh, and I forgot to mention that these are $7s.. Yeah, my bankroll is in ruins, because the crushing downswing on $60-$30, and I had to withdraw a big amount of money. So the goal of this challenge to get back to the higher limits.

I saw the news about the Pokerstars-Fulltilt deal, and I'm very happy about it, I had more than 4k on FTP, plus I had tons of bonuses there. I hope that my Black membership and its buddies will be there when FTP opens. 

1 Week 1000 games!

So I've decided to make a little challenge. I'm going to play 1000 games this week (143/day) . It's fairly easy (well, i just played 80 games yesterday so..:P), even if I usually don't play this "much".
I'm going to try making decisions faster (we're talking about automatic/obvious decisions), and don't do anything else when grinding. Maybe listening to some chilling classical music. It is a very good idea imo to boost up my hourly+ROI a bit. I'll try to write every day to keep you u informed!

Hello again! :D

A lot of things happened to me since the last post, so it will be a bit longer post than the last few. First of all :

This is the graph of the last month, but it does not contain the last 500-600 games (I had to reinstall my windows, and some hh-s are missing). So I made more than 4000$ with bonuses in May. 

This was the best month in my entire poker career, and I'm very proud of it. I reached the $60 limit very quickly. I was a bit nervous, and try to tableselect for the first  50-100 games, then I got comfortable with playing this stake. I'm avoiding regs of course, there are dozens of it!  

Soo..that was May. Then things got worse : 

To sum up, I had to move down to $30, then to $15... I'm grinding the $15s now with a very decent volume, but I have to play thousands of games to get back where I were. It's pretty depressing but hey.. we're talking about hyperturbo games. 

I'm going to Italy with my family for a week, and I don't think that I'll play much (well I certainly will play a few games, it would be very strange to miss out a whole week :P ).

And ooof course, some science stuff from space!

12 Pictures Of Space You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

And some music from Art By Numbers. If you like classical music, and metal, you should check it out! 

Running like a god

That's my frikkin graph for May so far :

Pretty sick isn't it? I made more money in the last 9 days than I made in the whole April. As you can see, swings went bigger in the last games. The reason for it > they are $30s hypers ^^
Yes, I could finally go up a limit. It feels good man! I'll try to withdraw less money now, since I don't want to move down.
The $30s are as "hard" as the $15s so far. Of course I met a few pretty good regs too, but there are so many retards as well. My FPPs/VIP level (I'm a Goldstar right now) are increasing with a much higher rate (ty captain obv., that's because the rake is twice as high).
I've just checked the upper limit, and maaaan these are the $60s. That't not too good, because it means I can move up if I reach 3000$, instead of 2500$ (if the upper limit were $50, because I always move up if I reach 50 BI for the next limit, and down if I reach 35 BI). But of course I don't want to rush, because I don't know my true winrate at this level, since my last days were superupswingy.

I can't wait for Monday, since Veil of Maya is coming to Hungary with great bands like Structures, Volumes, and Vildhjarta (these are metal bands, if you're wondering). If you don't know Veil of Maya, check out this beauty :

Closing April

Okay, so here is my graph of the month :

Yeah..whatever. As you can see I almost reached my volume goal (3000 game), but I'm obviously not happy with the $ I earned. I also took a shot to the $30s... You can see the results around the 2300. game :P 

I had to withdraw some money, so it will need 25-30 BI at the $15s to move up to $30. I'll take a 15 BI shot, I hope I'll stay there permanently. I'm tired of these "breakeven" months (I'm speaking about winning an amount, then withdraw all of it). Well I won't have any problems with withdrawing a big amount for at least two weeks, since my wallet was stolen at the previous week.. with all my bank cards.. yikes.

I'm coming with a "goals for May" post tomorrow!

Running good finally!

I got a bit lazy in terms of volume for the past few days, but I could still win 18-19 BI at the $15s. Very nice results after the breakeven strech (nearly 1900 game :| ). Now it's Monday morning, and I want to move up to the $30s as soon as possible, so I'll switch to grind mode now.

Duhh it's a short post but whatever, maybe I'll write again in the next few days! Cheers


Some hungarian progressive metal for the metalheads :

Breakeven 4 life!

Sooo I've played 1550 games in the month, and earned -2.70$ dollars yet.

This is the first day when I'm a huge winner (+16.5 BI @ $7s), so I decided to write here :D...

Playing breakeven for long streches can be really hard and stressful (well, it turned out that this is nothing compared to some dudes breakeven streches in hypers.. look at this sh*t > graph < as you can see he was breakeven for 7-8000 games. Of course if the graph's owner reading this and wants to remove it, pm me np). The best you can do imo is to play as much as you can without tilting (maybe with more pauses), and find a pokerbuddy to review your game. I'm posting my graphs on 2+2 nearly every day, and a few guys added me on Skype for hh reviews, I'm hoping that it'll help my game (and I help theirs). 

One problem that I had with my game so far in the month is that sometimes I focus on quantity, not quality. I mean if I'm get distracted, or I'm tired, I find myself grinding like a braindead, just autopiloting for hours. Sure, there will be a decent volume, but I'm giving up small edges, which are extremely important in hyperturbos. I'm working on my work ethic and focusing right now. I recommend for you d00dz to run this software  while you're playing : Coldturkey . It's a free software, and you can block sites for a couple of hours, so you won't get distracted by Facebook, Twitter, or anything that you hanging on a lot. I'm not sure about the music though, sometimes it helps me to get relaxed, sometimes I lose focus because of it. It depends on the person imo. 

Non-poker:

Here is a nice article from my all-time favourite site, Cracked : 5-famous-scientists-dismissed-as-morons-in-their-time . Watch out, this site can be addictive as hell. 

Running under EV

I've started to take grinding more seriously, because I need to buy a lot of things. Primarily stuff for my place, and, if I could afford it in the near future, maybe a new guitar. I want a Crusher 7 (Ran Crusher). Well, maybe it would be in the far future, because currently, I'm running under EV. Oh, did I mention 60 BI under EV at the fkin 7's and 15's?

Of course, I didn't loose that much, so I could just stop whining. The problem is, I have to withdraw regularly, so my BR is stagnating between 800$ and 1500$ since FTP closed. I'd really like to hear some tips for this problem (yeah obv, I should start spending less money on sh*t, and play more). I think I would crush the $30s, but I can't get a chance.. The last try was a total failure (I mentioned it in one of my previous posts), I was owned by fishes, and needed to step back. Sooo now, I'm trying to play more every day (increasing my daily volume from 90-100 games to 120-130, maybe more). A good idea would be to start playin the knockout tournaments again. I tried the $10.50 HT Tournament yesterday on Stars, but it's a total gambling. You start with t1000 @ 50/100 blinds..

And finally, some classical music yo (I'd also want to buy a digital piano somedayz..)

New month, new challenges

Sooo I've finished a very good month! I could reach and stay @ the $15s, and earn a decent profit. Here is my graph of March :

I've earned 1156$ with bonuses. I ran pretty well, except for the $30s. My main goals for April : 

[ ] 3000 hypers

[ ] min. 1500$ profit

[ ] reach the $30s, and stay there

[ ] finish watching chadders's pack

[ ] post and comment more on 2+2

[ ] get Jared Tendler's book

[ ] post in my blog every week

Non-poker:

[ ] continue exercising 3 times a week in the gym

[ ] read 2 books

[ ] practicing guitar every day

I re-discovered a decent finnish metal band, called Wintersun. I don't really like these kind of folkish stuff, but this song is nearly perfect, especially the solo. I wanted to learn it, but I can't do it by ear, and the guitar tab for it sucks :|

dat doomswitch

I'm running badly at the $15s (I lost 25-30 buyin), so I started mixing my game with $7s games, I still run like god in those. I've just checked my HEM, and I'm 35BI below EV at the $15-$30s. Kinda sucky, but I were warned before I started hypers, that this is totally standard, well, I still want to punch something :D

 Oh, I almost forgot : I won a 1 month premium membership to husng.com on 2+2! You had to make a strategic post, the winner was picked randomly. So now I can buy chadders's videopack now with a discount, I'll do it on next week.

30$ HERE I COME... lol jk ovb

Due to the last few days's upswing (I'm in +45 BI @ 15s in the month) , I've managed to reach my br goal, where I can move up to the 30$. So I fired up some tables and.. omg. My ass was kicked even by the worst players, it's funny that I was worried about playing against stronger players, and in the first few games, players who seemed to be regs limp/called, or just called my shove @ 10 bb eff with all kinds of crap like J3s or T8o. There was a dude who kept playing against me, with 0% PFR, limp/calling 100% and calling pre 100%. He just killed me, hit almost every flop, and managed to win all 60/40 and 70/30 situations. All in all, I lost 12-14 buyin, and I decided to drop back to the 15s. Not a big deal, I've just played 30-40 games @ 30$, and ran bad. If  I win back the amount I lost @ 30$, I'll try again (so approx. 30 BI @ 15$). Same stuff was going on, when I were trying to move up to the 15s, I had to move down for 3 times before I could finally stay at the upper limit.
A guy had posted his daily graph to 2+2 yesterday, and it was truly inspiring. He played 10.7 hours 'till 7 AM (what a sicko) @ 15s and 30s, and managed to win +900$. He played more than 300 games 2tabling. I asked in the forum about any tips for better volume/focus/motivation. Somebody suggested, that I should increase the time gradually, it seems to be a good idea (I'll try to add 10-15 min to my grind every day).

I've just bought the EP of a duo called Zelliack for 1$ (the singer is singing in Tesseract too). Funky-jazzy stuff, check it out!

Running well

It's comfortable to grind the 15s now, I'm in +21 BI in the month. I hope this good run will last until I can move up to the 30s :P I'll need money for the end of the month, because I'd like paint my place, and buy some new furniture. I'm thinking about buying an Xbox360, but it can wait, I don't want to spew my roll too quickly.
The volume is still bad imo, especially now, when if I win the first 4-5 game, I just go lazy and play Skyrim (gosh, that shit is addictive as hell) or play guitar or anything else..

Otherzzz:

I'm reading The Age of Turbulence by Allan Greenspan. I'm studying management and business stuff, and I'm recently thinking about getting into the field of stock market, I've already read 7-8 book about it, mostly from André Kostolany (hungarian fellow of course).  This book is mostly about economics, but not in the boring way (well..I hope so, I read only the introductory haha) .

I really like www.ted.com , there are hundreds of lectures about various fields, I'll post the best of them here in the future. To begin with, here is one about crows (scary stuff!)

Back to the 15s..but meeeeh

Sooo, I've managed to grind out from the so called "downswing", I made +30 bi on the 7s 'till yesterday. Pretty good, I've decided to move up to the 15s again. It had started good (+8 BI),  but then I insantly lost 13 BI. Niice! 

No problem, it's still hyper turbo! 

I was sick for the last few days (stomach ache, fever and stuff), so I didn't play that much tbh. I need to work on my daily volume, I just need motivation imo. I'll try to play 3 "big" sessions a day, each of them will include 40-50 games, with a 15 minute break in them. For motivation, I visit the "daily graph thread" on 2p2 every day, and I'm planning to post my graphs there frequently.

Other stuff :

I've just finished Michael Brooks's 13 Things That Don't Make Sense. It's about 13 unsolved mysteries in science, including dark matter, placebo-effect, sex and death, and cold nuclear fusions. You can read more about it here :13 Things That Don't Make Sense

I know that the majority of you have already heard about or seen this video, but if you don't, take a 30min break while grinding, and watch it. It'll worth it!

Edit : Meh..I really like the moment when I see a powerful video or image, and want to share it without really thinking about it.. Read this after the video : http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

Variance got me! :|

Unfortunately i had to move back to 7s due to the downswing of the last couple days. I can't win over the last 500 game, but it is still a small samplesize, and it says nothing about my game. Obv i have leaks imo, so I've spoken with one of my poker buddys to review hh's. I send him 3 hyperturbo hh, he send me 3. I hope that will improve my game. I continue to watch mers's videos, and I'd really need money for the chadders vid pack.
I made a new 2+2 account with the name "early_grave". My last was "edham" but i wasn't a big poster there. I want to post more hand questions, and comment more to other players hand posts in the future.

My last 500 game, not a big deal (I'm crying obv)

Non poker stuff:

I did a little jamming session with my friend, who'll be the other guitarist in my band. We want to record 2 songs (one of them is 7-8 minutes long, so it will be a small EP imo) in March or April. I'll post them here,  feel free to comment them in the future :) 

Here is an amazing lecture from Brian Brushwood. It is about scams of the modern world (such as astrology, UFOs, crop circles, homeopathy and more). Really funny and interesting, I recommend it to everyone. Enjoy! (The lecture is in 14 part on youtube, but i couldn't find the last 2 part..its a bit tilting)

Grinding the 15's

I've played a couple of break-even days on the week @ the 15$ (I'm speaking about 400-450 games, so it's not a big deal).  I'm 10-15 BI under EV, but hey, its hyperturbo, there is no reason to cry :D
I've bought a premium membership to www.husng.com , and downloaded all videos. I'm watching Mersenneary's videos firstly, they are very solid for hyperturbos, so I recommend it to everyone. Maybe I'll buy the chadders video pack too, I read the description, and it seems to be very useful (it is for hyperturbos too). Also I'm reading the Mersenneary E-book again, very good stuff, especially the chapters about end-game strategy (cliffnote : you don't have to use nash below 10-12 bb automatically, it is not the optimal play in many situations against various players)

Non poker stuff : I'm thinking about going back to gym, I'd really need it. I'm sitting in front of the computer for very long hours, and I've just read this article on Lifehacker:
http://lifehacker.com/5879536/how-sitting-all-day-is-damaging-your-body-and-how-you-can-counteract-it .
It is about how sitting all day causes health problems, and how you can avoid it. I recommend it to everyone. I'm also getting into basic yoga exercises, to stretch my body after long grinds, and it's a good thing against stress too. I'm feeling the results of it just after 3-4 occasions (however, some moves can be painful if you are forcing them to be perfect so.. don't do it, you have to feel comfortable, not suffering)

I'm listening to the debut album of T.R.A.M, called Lingua Franca now, its not metal, but rather a crazy progressive-jazzy stuff from one of my favourite guitarist, Tosin Abasi.

My very first post!

Hi everyone! I'm Adam from Hungary, a 22-year-old student and poker player. I've decided to make a blog about my successes and failures (mostly imo) in poker. I'm playing for 3 years now. I've started with SSS, but I moved to FR SNG short after. I climbed up to the 33$'s on Full Tilt Poker, where I was stopped by a terrible downswing. I felt really bad about it, and started tilting. I wanted to play poker, but not that monotonic FR SNG. Sooo I fired up my first HUSNG table..and that was the nutz!
I've climbed up to the 80$s with turbo-husng's on FTP with an average ROI (I can't remember exactly, but I didn't have a big sample size about the 80$'s), when suddenly..yeah FTP closed. It was terrible for me, because I kept my whole BR on it, and I was playing poker for a living (lookin' back, I was very dumb, nvm). I was given a "first-aid bonus" by an affiliate site (250$ if i'm correct), so I had to start the whole thing from scratch. Yeah it kinda sucked, I had to grind a LOT , because I had to pay rent etc. ( my parents are always helping me, but I'm trying to pay everything by myself, well, if I can afford it). When I reached 1800$, I moved my money from iPoker to PokerStars, and started grinding the 15$-30$'s. And here comes the 1st of February, when BOOM I've started playing hyperturbos.

Here is my graph about February.  Those straight lines are headsup-knockout tournaments, I won one, was second once, and finished ITM 3-4x.

I played 1400 hyperturbos in this month @ 7$'s and 15's, but I don't want to write anything about my ROI and stuff now, because this sample size is not even a sample size in this game.

So this blog will be a poker blog mainly, but I'll mention stuff about other topics which I like, including music (I play guitar, mostly metal), books, and I'm really into science (physics and cosmology mostly), so expect some videos or articles about that too.

I'm planning to post here once a week, and I really hope you guys were enjoy it. Cheers!